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The TrentoVision Team launches an investigation into the so-called, Southern "Poverty" Law Center to find out why the Obama Administration works so closely with this "filthy rich" front group for the radical left! Our special guest is Peter Sprigg, Research Fellow of the prestigious Family Research Council. August 2012, Peter was a target of a radical homosexual activist who wanted to kill him and 14 others at FRC. Throughout this five-part series we will look at the finances, pro-gay agenda, pro-Islamic jihad agenda and the all around anti-American activities of the SPLC.========================================

Juveniles not mistreated by Sheriff's Office, medical contractor

Published: Thursday, April 16, 2015at 8:59 a.m.

Last Modified: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 9:49 p.m.

TAMPA | A U.S. District Court judge handed Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd a decisive victory Thursday in a federal lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center alleging that young defendants were being held in overly harsh conditions at Polk's Central County Jail.

Judge Steven Merryday in Tampa ruled that Southern Poverty, representing a group of juveniles in the facility, failed to prove that neither the Sheriff's Office nor Corizon, the medical company contracted to treat detainees, "was deliberately indifferent to any substantial risk of serious harm."

But his ruling went further, rebuking Southern Poverty for the legal arguments it presented.

"(Southern Poverty's) view of the law is generally wrong, and the (Sheriff's Office's) view is generally right," he wrote.

"(Southern Poverty's) proposed legal standards are decidedly and demonstrably not the law of the land and constitute an aggressive and novel understating to insert the federal judiciary forcefully into the administration of a county's juvenile detention in a manner and to an extent without warrant, without precedent, and without bounds," the ruling stated.

"(Southern Poverty's) offer in defense of this proposed intervention is both a flawed interpretation of the pertinent precedent and a nearly

uniform reliance on decisions that are either not binding, not applicable, not persuasive, or not — for example, in the citation as authority of a settlement — precedent at all.

"Although the law of the Supreme Court and the Eleventh Circuit is plentiful, accessible, and precisely governing," the ruling stated, "(Southern Poverty) largely chooses to look elsewhere for guidance.

SCOTT WHEELER | THE LEDGER

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd holds on Thursday a piece of paper showing the accreditations his agency has that the Department of Juvenile Justice does not have during a press conference about the lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In his 182-page ruling, Merryday said testimony about the jail conditions for juveniles didn't support the allegations against the Sheriff's Office.

"In fact," the judge wrote, "the conditions of juvenile detention at (Central County Jail) are not consistent with (Southern Poverty's) dark, grim, and condemning portrayal."

Lawyers with Southern Poverty haven't responded to requests for comment.

Judd said Thursday he was not surprised by the ruling.

"We have said all along that we strongly rejected all of Southern Poverty's absurd allegations," he said in a prepared statement. "Today, the federal court agreed with us and specifically found that Southern Poverty's allegations were not supported by the facts or court precedence."

LONG COURT BATTLE

Thursday's ruling ends a three-year court battle, in which the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged use of unreasonable restraints, unlawful force and punitive isolation, a deliberate indifference to serious medical needs and the creation of dangerously violent conditions of confinement.

During a monthlong non-jury trial in U.S. District Court in December 2013, lawyers for the Sheriff's Office argued that isolation cells weren't used punitively, but were used for juveniles who needed to be separated from others for reasons including violent behavior.

In his ruling, Merryday noted that Southern Poverty argued that there are an average of two fights a week in the jail, but he also noted the lack of testimony to define a "fight" and about conditions in comparable jails.

"For all that the evidence in this action proves, the two 'fights' per week among 80 to 100 teenage detainees living in close quarters at (Central County Jail) might constitute a historic high or a historic low," he wrote. "(Southern Poverty's) failure to adduce comparable data is curious, indeed."

Southern Poverty has the option of appealing Merryday's ruling to the federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

Summary:Of the twenty-two(22) Southern Poverty Law Center senior program staff members, fifteen(15) are Jews. This is a numerical representation of 68%. Of the thirteen(13) Southern Poverty Law Center directors, eight(8) are Jews or have Jewish spouses. This is a numerical representation of 62%. Jews are approximately 2% of the U.S. population.* Therefore Jews are over-represented among the Southern Poverty Law Center senior program staff members by a factor of 34 times(3,400 percent), and over-represented on the Southern Poverty Law Center board of directors by a factor of 31 times(3,100 percent).

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